Tournament Strategies
After receiving pocket cards, you are immediately faced with a choice: play your cards and either raise or call the blinds, or fold.
Practice Matters
Then, holding this card firmly, and keeping the right
Then, holding this card firmly, and keeping the right hand almost stationary, pull out the rest of the cards with the left hand by a backward and inward motion and by pressing the left fingertips against the back. See Fig. 58. Then shove the right-hand card on top.
The action is not concealed, but made openly.
The action is not concealed, but made openly. It is a very common procedure for arranging any hand for play or discard. If the discard happen to lie together, bring them to the top with one action. Now the top cards must be palmed, and one of the methods already described in this work may be employed.